Arundinella hirta
Arundinella hirta
Synonyms: Arundinella anomala f. glabra, Arundinella kengiana, Vilfa ciliata, Arundinella hirta var. semihirta, Arundinella hirta f. shotokuensis, Arundinella hirta var. shotokuensis, Arundinella hirta var. riparia, Arundinella hirta var. hondana, Arundinella anomala var. semihirta, Arundinella hirta subsp. riparia, Arundinella hirta var. aristata, Arundinella glauca var. ciliatiglumis, Arundinella hirta var. gracillima, Arundinella hirta var. ciliata, Garnotia taquetii, Arundinella glauca, Festuca thunbergii, Arundinella riparia subsp. breviaristata, Poa hirta, Arundinella murayamae, Arundinella hirta var. depauperata, Arundinella taquetii, Arundinella hondana, Arundinella hirta f. koryuensis, Arundinella smaragdina, Arundinella anomala var. lasiophylla, Panicum mandshuricum var. pekinense, Arundinella anomala f. hirtella, Arundinella hirta var. ciliatiglumis, Arundinella anomala var. glauca, Arundinella anomala var. hirtiglumis, Arundinella anomala var. depauperata, Arundinella hirta var. koryuensis, Arundinella hirta var. hirtiglumis, Arundinella hirta var. stricta, Panicum williamsii, Agrostis thunbergii, Arundinella hirta f. variegata, Arundinella hirta var. glauca, Panicum mandshuricum, Arundinella anomala, Arundinella anomala var. mixta, Arundinella oleagina, Arundinella hirta var. livens, Arundinella paniciformis, Arundinella riparia, Agrostis ciliaris, Arundinella anomala var. stricta, Arundinella hirta var. kutcharoensis
Botanical Description
Arundinella hirta is a tufted, rhizomatous perennial grass in the family Poaceae distributed across temperate and subtropical East Asia, from the Russian Far East and Korea through China and Japan to northern India and Southeast Asia, where it grows on grassy slopes, forest margins and open hillsides up to about 2000 metres elevation. Plants form loose tussocks with erect, glabrous culms 60 to 120 centimetres tall arising from short scaly rhizomes. Leaf sheaths are often hairy at the throat; the linear leaf blades are 10 to 30 centimetres long and 3 to 8 millimetres wide, flat or partly inrolled, with a finely pointed apex and slightly scabrous margins. The terminal inflorescence is a narrow, contracted panicle 10 to 25 centimetres long with short ascending branches bearing paired spikelets, one sessile and one pedicelled. Each spikelet is about 4 millimetres long with two florets, the upper bisexual with a short, weakly geniculate awn arising from a bilobed lemma. Flowering and fruiting occur from late summer to autumn.
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Traditional American Uses
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